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“Ay, ay, sir,” the devil said, and he ran up the rat-lines, into the top, up the topmast rigging and along the yard. Well, when he found the sail stiff up and down, he hailed the deck: “Below there! On deck there! Lower away ya halliards!” “I will not,” said the old man, “nary a lower.” “Come up your sheets, then,” cries the devil. “This main-topsail’s stiff up-and-down.
In lines three deep they stood ranged along the ample fighting platform of the prow; in the foremost line were the archers, behind them stood the swordsmen, their weapons gleaming lividly in the darkness. They crowded to the bulwarks of the waist-deck and swarmed upon the rat-lines of the mainmast.
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